From
“Lincoln 365,” by Arnold Kunst
August 4
One knowledgeable observer wrote in the summer of 1863: “… As to the
politics of Washington the most striking thing is the absence of personal
loyalty to the President. It does not exist. He has no admirers, no
enthusiastic supporters, none to bet on his head. He has a kind of shrewdness
and common sense, mother wit, and slipshod, low-level honesty that made him a
good Western jury lawyer. But he is an unutterable calamity to us where he is.”
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